Firefox 3.0 Beta 1

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

apparently there are still 700 bugs ish that havent been fixed and 120 ish may still be left in 3.0 final:( they should just push the release date back, i dont wanna have to have for 3.02 to get a stable firefox3. im gunna hold off until rc3 or later to give it a whirl.

There's hundreds if not thousands of bugs in the version of Firefox you're already using, putting a number on it doesn't make it more unstable.

Edit: About page zoom and the new UI, page zoom works depending on the way the page is written, some scale everything larger (so you have to scroll left and right), but some pages just make the elements larger while still fitting to the window width, and the new UI is coming in B2, or so i read.

[NienorGT]

Wasn't Firefox 3 the major new / uber leet version of Firefox? I don't see anything much new and what is new hardly amounts to a whole version number change.

There lot of changes, lot are under the hood.

I do think that FF3 is more better over FF2 than FF2 over FF1.5

[ThePitt]

let me guess... 1GB is not enough. Oh, yea, just brough another stick and run firefox smooth. Sounds like a good deal.

[Nicholas-c Veteran]

So where's the native UI? I'm running it under Vista and it still looks as gross as Firefox 2.x did.

both the GUI and UI weren't worked on until ending stages of firefox 2 betas last time round

[Joel]

When I opened it and went to Neowin.net, it looked like this. Like the old Neowin, I want Maxthon to do this, but it won't! Can anyone help?

That's what Neowin.net looks like. There's nothing old about it, that's this year's release.

[Angel Blue01]

Screenshots :p

[LOC Veteran]

My back and forward (and stop etc) buttons are greyed out and don't work in this build. When I close FF, it goes to 100% cpu and nearly melts my system.

Uninstalling until a new build comes out and just using the RC from the other day (which works fine)

[Jase]

No Mac Version?

[shakey_snake]

:busted:

Looks like there is:

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or...releases/3.0b1/

[Jase]

Yes but... http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or....0b1/mac/en-US/

[AmpCoder]

Yes but... http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or....0b1/mac/en-US/

http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/mozilla.or....0b1/mac/en-US/

There you go!

[:: Lyon ::]

I don't see any reasons to upgrade..just yet..

[Randolph]

How is "Places" coming along?

[Jase]

http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/mozilla.or....0b1/mac/en-US/

There you go!

Thank you!

[Nicholas-c Veteran]

My back and forward (and stop etc) buttons are greyed out and don't work in this build. When I close FF, it goes to 100% cpu and nearly melts my system.

Uninstalling until a new build comes out and just using the RC from the other day (which works fine)

send them a report saying its broked :p

[McCrap]

Not only is this build way faster in rendering(when compared to v2 & opera), it is also really memory efficient & releases unused memory on the fly. Kudos to the Firefox Team. Can't wait for the final build.

[L3thal Veteran]

My back and forward (and stop etc) buttons are greyed out and don't work in this build. When I close FF, it goes to 100% cpu and nearly melts my system.

Uninstalling until a new build comes out and just using the RC from the other day (which works fine)

Looks like either the code was messed up or it didn't install correctly for the buttons to not even work.

On a site note, good thing your PC isn't a nuclear reactor :laugh:

[JoHideo]

Is anyone else getting incredibly slow performance on Fx3? Every time I try to open a new tab or close a tab, it goes incredibly slow.

[Hidr0]

not really....

running fast and smooth!....

Vista

2Gb ram

core2duo (4300)

[1Frothy]

Meh. I don't like Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 much. It seems slower to load pages and memory utilization is clearly higher than with Firefox 2.x

[Rappy Veteran]

I'll wait till its final but its good to see we are not far from that!

[1Frothy]

I'll wait till its final but its good to see we are not far from that!

I'm actually concerned and quite alarmed for the very same reason.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Firefox is still slower on my mac than Safari (odd, they're using the same GFX API now), but it's faster on my PC.

[bigmehdi]

well , I'm currently using more than 15 addons, and they are all without exception incompatible with firefox 3b1. :crazy:

[Freedom Phantom]

well , I'm currently using more than 15 addons, and they are all without exception incompatible with firefox 3b1. :crazy:

Have you tired forcing the compatibility?

I'm running the beta, and I've forced most of my extensions to work. Just need to disable the compatibility check and then disable the ones causing the browser to be unusable.

Nightly tester tool - Its not updated for Beta 1, but im sure it will be pretty soon.

or the hard way

type about:config into the address bar. Then right click on the list and add a boolean and name it: extensions.checkCompatibility

Set the value to FALSE, and you should have full access to your extensions. Just weed out the ones that are causing problems.

Just keep in mind that this stuff can cause firefox to become unstable and crash. So handle with extreme care.

Edited November 20, 2007 by Freedom Phantom